Plant molecular farming: systems and products

Plant Breeding and Molecular Farming

Advances in plant molecular farming.

Plant molecular farming (PMF) is a new branch of plant biotechnology, where plants are engineered to produce recombinant pharmaceutical and industrial proteins in large quantities. As an emerging subdivision of the biopharmaceutical industry, PMF is still trying to gain comparable social acceptance as the already established production systems that produce these high valued proteins in microbia...

Plant molecular farming: opportunities and challenges.

Production of foreign molecules in transgenic plants is anticipated to be an alternative to already established, microbial or animal expression systems with lower production costs. This article reviews the different technologies and approaches currently used to produce economically interesting molecules in plants or plant cell cultures, to evaluate their technical feasibility and economic impli...

Molecular farming of Plant Derived Edible Vaccines

Plant Derived Edible Vaccines Abstract Vaccines have been one of the most farreaching and important public health initiatives of the 20 century. Edible vaccine, in particular, might overcome some of the difficult of production, distribution and delivery associated with traditional vaccine. Transgenic potatoes expressing LT-B were found to induce both serum and secretory antibodies when fed to m...

Editorial: Plant Molecular Farming: Fast, Scalable, Cheap, Sustainable

The transfer of genes into plants, that was achieved in the early 80's, paved the way for the exploitation of the potential of plant genetic engineering, to add novel agronomic traits and/or to design plants as factories for high added value molecules. For this latter area of research, the term " Molecular Farming " was coined because major crops like maize and tobacco were originally used basi...